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Chapter 1388: Chapter 740: Sea of Flowers (Part 2)

Li Yuanba looked at the sea of petals that previously fluttered like a gentle breeze, but with each chain reaction, the sea of petals turned into a violent wind.

The piercing sound of petals slicing through the air reached his ears, each petal turning into a sharp weapon.

Several petals cut into the five-meter radius of the dual force fields of ‘Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ and gravity set by ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’ overhead, and the petals started to traverse along the paths of the force field of ‘Invisible Primordial Magnetism’.

The gravity field, however, had no effect on the petals. Although it was not easy for the petals to harm Li Yuanba, the impact of ‘Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ on the petals wasn’t as strong as he anticipated.

He reached out with two fingers and pinched a petal traversing the ‘Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ force field.

Upon touching it, he realized that the petal was not a physical object, but a special form of Gold Element Energy, from which he sensed a trace of rule enhancement.

This was thanks to the fact that Li Shiming’s main body had practiced the ‘Heavenly Human Technique’, providing some reference for IBMz15, allowing a certain degree of perception of the Gold Rules.

With IBMz15’s help, even though he was a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Sword Cultivator lacking rule perception, he could judge that the petals were influenced by the Gold Rules.

The petals enhanced by the Gold Rules possessed an attack power equivalent to that of a Great Cultivator Level, in a certain sense.

Even though the Gold Rules within each petal were extremely sparse, as long as it bore the power of rules, its attack was on another level.

It was only because his ‘Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ had a potent effect on gold substances and energy, and since ‘Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ was a divine ability that barely borrowed the power of rules, it could still affect the petals to some extent.

Li Yuanba did not dare to be negligent. He instantly expanded the range of the ‘Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ force field of ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’, unleashing a thousand-meter radius ‘Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ force field.

All the petals within began flying along the force lines in a bizarre manner, guided by the force lines of the ‘Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ force field.

He continuously adjusted the lines of the force field, otherwise, these petals would wander through every point within the thousand-meter radius via the force lines, and since he was within this force field range, he would also be attacked by the petals.

Fortunately, he could manipulate ‘Invisible Primordial Magnetism’. He activated his own ‘Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ divine ability, forming a five-meter radius range of ‘Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ around his body.

This way, he had two layers of ‘Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ force fields surrounding him, with all the petals within the first layer’s thousand-meter radius ‘Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ force field.

With his deliberate isolation, no petal could intrude into the five-meter range of his personal ‘Invisible Primordial Magnetism’ force field.

He shook his head, thankful that he ventured in himself. If another Nascent Soul Middle Stage Practitioner had come, they might have been instantly shredded to dust by these petals.

Assured of his own safety, he found time to observe this sea of flowers.

He discovered that, in some way, these petals shared an amazing similarity with the energy-converted flying swords within ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’.

Both were energy conversions, both released flying blades, both used numbers to attack the enemy.

Unfortunately, these petals were impossible to collect, or he would have liked to take some for study.

Even the golden flowers on the ground were one with the earth, and even using his Divine Sense, he couldn’t collect any golden flower.

He traveled through this sea of flowers using Sword Escape for thirty minutes, a distance that for other cultivators would undoubtedly spell death.

Yet, he viewed the dazzling scene, admiring it as he passed through.

His ‘Divine Eye’ saw the edge of the sea of flowers through countless petals.

When he flew out of the sea of flowers, the petals swirling above it suddenly froze in mid-air, and then all the petals vanished, with the original petal-less flowers immediately regrowing petals.

The entire sea of flowers instantaneously restored to its original state, as if nothing had ever occurred.

Li Yuanba sighed, realizing this method of flower recovery was not rare, many Artifact Refining Masters employed similar techniques.

But the issue lay in number. Considering the countless flowers in this sea, if Artifact Refining Masters had to craft each flower, it would exhaust thousands upon thousands of them to death.

He couldn’t fathom how Langcai Great Power accomplished this; the world of great powers was beyond his understanding.

All he could do was marvel; each flower seemed like a magical treasure, a treasure possessing rule power. If not for the weak rule power, they could almost be considered having the might of a Spirit Treasure.

Of course, this was only due to the petals containing the Gold Rules, but the petals’ power greatly differed from a true Spirit Treasure.

Look at Li Yuanba’s life-bound treasure, the Xingyi Sword; when fully unleashed, the rule power contained within the Speed Rule Imprint was many times that of these petals.

Just from the fact that the petals failed to reveal even a Gold Rules Imprint, one could judge how scarce the rules within the petals were.

However, if these rule-enhanced petals amassed in sufficient quantity, even a Great Cultivator would find it hard to deal with.

Li Yuanba was inclined to stay longer and further study these peculiar flowers.

But as soon as he considered this, he noticed several black figures swiftly approaching within the sea of flowers.

This sea of flowers did not attack the Grotto Heaven Guardians; the Guardians strode over the flowers without being assaulted by any petal.

Knowing he couldn’t linger, Li Yuanba turned and once more crossed a space barrier.

Upon passing through the space barrier this time, he sensed a slight aura of spatial transformation, indicating a short space transmission.

He found himself at the end of a golden brick-paved avenue, flanked by golden statues, each different, depicting various cultivators wielding different magical treasures.

Although the color was uniformly golden, the expressions on the statues were vividly realistic, as if real people had turned into statues.

Moreover, spatial barriers existed to the left and right and above the golden brick avenue, confining the moving space solely to the avenue’s range.

Li Yuanba attempted Sword Escape for movement, but the moment he flew above the golden brick avenue, he felt a flight-restricting ward and was forced back to the ground.

With a slight frown on his forehead, under normal circumstances, flight-restricting wards wouldn’t affect ground-level Sword Escape.

Ground-level Sword Escape could essentially be considered another mode of walking, yet here it was forbidden.

He tried to fly out using the Spirit Treasure Xingyi Sword, and fortunately, the flight of the Spirit Treasure Xingyi Sword was not restricted; otherwise, it would have completely curtailed a Sword Cultivator’s strongest means.

“Looks like I’ll have to walk!” he thought helplessly.

He had barely taken two steps when he abruptly looked toward a pair of statues by the roadside.

What had been lifeless statues exuded a wave of Spiritual Power Pattern as he approached them.

He noticed the statues’ eyes moving, and subsequently, their rigid golden bodies turned into a liquid-like pliability, and the pair of statues came to life just like that.

He discerned that this pair of statues seemed modeled after a pair of Sword Cultivators, especially upon coming to life, a small part of the liquid gold substance within them transformed into flying swords, hovering overhead.

Li Yuanba’s scalp tingled as he sensed the Sword Intent from the flying swords of the statues.

The most terrifying part was that this Sword Intent was of the Great Cultivator level.

He had a clear understanding of Great Cultivator level Sword Intent; after all, in ‘Ten Thousand Sword Peak’, there were over ten energy-converted flying swords containing Great Cultivator Sword Intent.

This meant he was about to face a pair of Great Cultivator level Sword Cultivators.

His expression was exceedingly stern as he looked at the pair of liquid gold Sword Cultivators before him, then glanced at the rows of statues farther down the road, causing his hairs to stand on end.

“Could these statues have been transformed from actual cultivators?” he had an inkling of understanding within.